Nodar

Like most part of the Portuguese rural space, Nodar is experiencing a moment of rupture between a past of hundreds of years where occupation of space and social bonds occurred thought a slow generational flux, within an essential agrarian culture, economically poor but culturally very rich, and a present of human and agricultural abandon, of disaggregation of the ancient and extremely intricate bonds between people and their place.

Nevertheless, Nodar is a place full of interest for projects departing from its social-geographic realities in its reflection and artistic intervention given the particular geographic location (a mountainous zone of difficult access) and the presence of specific types of social organization, namely the prevalence of a strong communal spirit and a genuine desire to keep alive ancestral work habits, rituals associated with the agrarian cycles, memories of tales and local legends, etc.

The Region of Viseu

For many centuries the strategic location of this region made it an obligatory passage point between the North and the South of Portugal, as well as between the littoral and the interior of the country.

Already during the roman domination, the region was a territory of great importance. Proofs of this fact are the innumerous archeological vestiges, such as coins, graves, mark stones and mainly roads.

This is considered as one of the most well balanced and preserved regions of Portugal and keeps to this day an impressive architectonic heritage.